How Shoshanna From ‘Girls’ Invaded the Sochi Olympics

No word yet on whether Zosia Mamet’s Shoshanna is impressed by the Olympics.

“How do you say OMG in Cyrillic?”

This is the sort of inspired Olympic commentary on “Shoshi Games 2014,” the breakout Internet hit of the Sochi Games, which makes an Olympian out of the “Girls” character Shoshanna Shapiro, a New York University student on the HBO show whose interests include “Sex and the City,” products, emoji, her bandana collection and the color pink. It is emerging as Sochi’s answer to McKayla Is Not Impressed, the viral sensation from the London Games in 2012.

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